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{{:Turley claimed that John Whitmer said: "I now say I handled those plates. there was fine engravings on both sides. I handled them...and they were shown to me by a supernatural power"}}
{{:Myron H. Bond (1878): John Whitmer "knew as well as he knew he had an existence that Joseph translated the ancient writing which was upon the plates, which he saw and handled"}}
{{:P. Wilhelm Poulson (1878): John Whitmer said "He handed them uncovered into our hands, and we turned the leaves sufficient to satisfy us"}}
{{:John Whitmer reaffirmed his testimony as printed in the Book of Mormon even after he left the Church}}
{{:John Whitmer (1876): "I have never heard that any one of the three or eight witnesses ever denied the testimony that they have borne to the Book as published in the first edition of the Book of Mormon"}}
{{:Question: Did John Whitmer, one of the Eight Witnesses, actually say that he saw the plates by a "supernatural power"?}}
{{:John Whitmer reaffirmed his published testimony of the Book of Mormon}}
{{:Source:John Whitmer Eight Witnesses statements}}